Dedication

• Publication year: 2022

Dedication

Sara Ann White

DEDICATION

On the eve of our Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, this Book is dedicated to the past, present, and future of Mercer Law Review.¹ Volume Seventy-Four is momentous in more way than one. Not only does this year mark the 150th anniversary of our law school but also this Book is the first time Georgia Survey is published in a fully digital format and the first time our law review will be published entirely electronic, with all four books online. This dedication includes both the authors and editors whose names our law review bears officially, their friends and families, and all of the support figures to each and within our institution that make Mercer Law Review possible. Mercer Law Review recognizes specially past executive boards, but in particular Volume Seventy-Three and Editor-in-Chief Shreya Shah without whom our transition forward would not be the same or as easy, as well as Sharon Bradley, our Faculty Director Professor Sue Painter-Thorne, Law Library Director Billie Jo Kaufman, Interim Dean Karen Sneddon, and many more.

Within the tradition that is our law review, Georgia Survey holds a special place for me and, I believe also, for many others. Of the four books published each year, this Book is both the largest and the oldest. It has been referred to as "[p]erhaps the single most important tradition inaugurated in those early years" of our law review, and, in my opinion (of course) as Book Editor, "Georgia Survey remains without doubt the single most significant enterprise ever mounted by Mercer Law Review."² For instance, it is the only annual law review survey of notable changes in Georgia law and is routinely cited by the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.³ To that end, Georgia Survey "stands as one of the most indispensable tools available to students of Georgia law, of whatever discipline."⁴ In fact, a 1998 questionnaire to former editorial board members elicited the response, almost unanimously, that "Georgia Survey is the most useful thing Mercer Law Review publishes."⁵ Last, I say honestly and confidently, from its inception to this year's publication, for both its authors and its editors, the Annual Survey of Georgia Law has been nothing other than a labor of love. I look forward to all that is to come.

Sara Ann White
Book Editor
Annual Survey of Georgia Law
Mercer Law Review Volume Seventy-Four

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Notes:

1. See Cathy Cox, "The Times They Are A Changin':" A Dedication to the Past, Present, and Future of...